Dismantling the FDA’s Tobacco Office Marks a New Beginning

Dismantling the FDA’s Tobacco Office Marks a New Beginning

Shuttering CDC and FDA tobacco offices will increase the deficit by billions of dollars (right away)

Trump shuttering the CDC Office on Smoking and Heath and decapitating the FDA Center for Tobacco Products will not only increase tobacco-caused disease but will also make the federal budget deficit worse (and cost American people and businesses a lot of money in avoidable medical costs). The only winners will be the big tobacco companies who gave millions to the Trump campaign. The reason for this is that smoking and other tobacco use cause a lo…